Fwd: Re: ess-5.2.1: ess-toolbar.el does not get compiled into elc file

[Robin Hankin]

>
>Hi Stephen
>
>thanks for this.
>I managed to compile ess-toolbar.el, and I can now see ess-toolbar.elc in
>~/ess-5.2.1/lisp.
>
>The value of ess-icon-directory is fine too: it is 
>~/ess-5.2.1/etc/icons/  and I can
>see a few files in there like spluslogo.xpm, which is a good sign.
>
>However, restarting emacs and running M-x R  gives no nice icons 
>like on your screenshot!
>
>What am I missing?  How do I tell ESS to run ess-toolbar.elc?
>
>best wishes
>
>Robin
>
>
>>
>>hi robin, et al.
>>
>>Looks like the new release has caused a few issues!  Hope we can
>>resolve them quickly.
>>
>>I installed ess-toolbar.el, but I didn't add any code to compile it to
>>.elc file, sorry there!  You should be able to fix this by doing
>>M-x byte-compile-file RET /your/path/to/ess-toolbar.el RET
>>
>>... assuming you have permission to write into that directory.  If
>>that works okay, then restart, and hopefully you'll see a toolbar.
>>
>>If not, check what the value of ess-icon-directory is; it should point
>>to something ending in .../ess/etc/icons where the icon (.xpm) files
>>should be for the toolbar.  If ess-icon-directory is wrong, please
>>tell us (so we can work out why the automatic method failed), and in
>>the meantime you can set the variable "by hand" in your .emacs:
>>
>>(setq ess-icon-directory "/home/stephen/emacs/ess/etc/icons")
>>(require 'ess-site)
>>
>>[put it before the ess-site call]
>>
>>There is a small screenshot of what the toolbar should look like at:
>>http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/~stephen/emacs/ess-toolbar.png
>>
>>Stephen
>
>

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